Sectional corn-plaster.



N o. 730,035; PATENTED JUNE 2, 1903.

W.'MAHLER. l SBGTIONAL- CORN BLASTER.

APPLIUATION FILED MAB. 1a, 1902. y

' %Eys UNITED STATES Patented June 2, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM MAHLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

sECTloNAL CoRN-PL-ASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,035, dated June 2,1903.

Application led March 13, 1902.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern/:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MAHLER, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the countyand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Sectional Corn-Plaster, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved corn onbunion plaster which is simple and durable in construction andarrangedto permit its readyuse for shielding corns and bunions ofvarious sizes and shapes without danger of exerting a pressure on anypart of the corn orbunion, thus avoiding the excruciating pain sofrequently caused by the application of the ordinary ring-shapedcorn-plaster, which is liable to press on the edge of the corn or bunionand unduly crowd the same into the central aperture of the cornplaster.

'lhe invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations ofthe same, as will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointedout in the claim.

A` practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings, forming a pant of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a side elevationof the sam e, and Figs. 3 and 4 are plan views showing the use of myimproved corn-plaster.

rlhe corn or bunion plaster is preferably segmental in shape, as plainlyindicated in Figs. l and 2; and it consists of a body made of softfibrous material in sections A, secured to a bottom piece B, madeof anadhesive material, such as paper or the like, at the under side vtoallow of fastening the corn-plaster to the iiesh of the foot orotherpart of the human body on which the corn-plaster is to be used.

As shown in Figs. l and 2, the body-sections Serial No. 98,012. l(Nomodel.)

A are arranged in pairs of different length, and

the sections are located one alongside the other on the bottom piece Band the latter can be readily torn or cut along the joint of adjacentsections to allow of separating thc sections, so that they can befastened independently one of the other in position on the foot aroundthe corn or bunion, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Thus two, three, or'moresections may be grouped around the corn or bunion and secured inposition on the flesh by the adhesive bottom piece without in the leasttouching the corn or bunion, and as the sections are located independentone of the other and can be placed nearer to or farther from the edge ofthe corn or bunion it is evident that no matter what size or shapethecorn or bunion may be the sections do not encroach on it and the cornor bunion is relieved of all pressure of theshoe and the corn-plaster,and conse-V quently all desired relief is afforded.

By having the sections of different sizes the user can readily selectwhichever is needed to accomplish the desired result.

Having thus described my invention, l

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A corn-plaster,comprising a plurality of independent segmental-shaped sections ofvarying lengths, and a segmental strip upon which the sections aresecured in pairs, end to end in juxtaposition, saidstrip having anadhesive substance on its under face and adapted to be severed betweenthe ends of the sections to permit the sections to be independentlyapplied to the foot around the corn, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

VILLIAM MAHLER.

